Supply Chains: Environment Protection and Human Rights

(asked on 26th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure a joined-up approach to tackling harms to the (a) environment and (b) human rights in UK supply chains.


Answered by
Douglas Alexander Portrait
Douglas Alexander
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 4th July 2025

In the Trade Strategy, the Government committed to promoting a coordinated approach to responsible business conduct. The Government’s review into responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slavery, and environmental harms in global supply chains, will consider the best way to give effect to this commitment.

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